Ledzokuku is one of the
constituencies
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
represented in the
Parliament of Ghana
The Parliament of Ghana is the unicameral legislature of Ghana. It consists of 276 members, who are elected for four-year terms in single-seat Electoral district, constituencies using a first-past-the-post voting system.
History
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. It elects one
Member of Parliament (MP) by the
first past the post
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system of election. Benjamin Narteh Ayiku is the member of parliament for the constituency.
Ledzokuku is located in the
Dangme East District of the
Greater Accra Region
The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's Regions of Ghana, 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the List of Ghanaian re ...
of
Ghana
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.
The municipality is bounded to the south by the Gulf of Guinea (from the Kpeshie Lagoon to the Sakumono Junction). It continues along the railway line through Sakumono to the ‘on the run’ traffic light. It is bounded to the East by the Spintex Road towards the Coca-Cola Roundabout. This turns to the left and right by Johnson Wax. To the north of the boundary is the Motorway through to the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange and moves south along the boundaries of the Ashitey Akomfra Electoral area and towards the estuary of the Kpeshie lagoon. The constituency is home to one of the main major hospitals in Accra, the Lekma hospital.
Members of Parliament
Elections
See also
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List of Ghana Parliament constituencies
This is a list of the 276 constituencies in Ghana that will be contested in the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana from December 2024. There were 275 constituencies at the time of the 2020 Ghanaian general election. One more constituency, Gua ...
References
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Parliamentary constituencies in the Greater Accra Region